What power do they have?
European Super League
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I feel bad for the players and the coaching staff, but we're going to be booed at every game from now until a very long time from now, and rightly so.
What left to play for in the league when City tops the league with 20 points by christmas?
This. The PL will cave in as they will eventually do a sweet deal that will satisfy both parties. Happens all the time in business.
The PL need the big 6 more than they need the PL. The world is run by those with money (and power) unfortunately which is not right, but it is the cold hard truth.
The ESL will happen eventually.
We’d easily be able to afford it, but not with the Glazers in charge.
I cannot believe this is happening. Time to support my local non league team.
Depends who gives them the most money.
It will because none of the teams involved will play in the domestic competitions of their country.
Qualification not required. Do you think we'd care as much about a game vs Liverpool in the league when we play them or another team in the ESL, where the big money is, a few days later. The PL will become utterly dog shit and the level of contempt that has and will be shown towards it will be there for all to see.
A lot of dooms day talk based on a rant Sky put out this morning. You don't know any of this but this is the way you've chosen to view the whole event.
I don't want players like Grealish to play for Villa, I want him to play for United and if the transfer fees weren't inflated to feck thanks to PSG and City, we'd probably have him now. Once we're playing SL football, Grealish will cost us about £150m. Why's that? SL tax, everyone knows we have the money. What do you think Villa are going to do with that big windfall? fecking burn it? You work out it and then tell me why the league will be weakened.
This is a very melodramatic picture you've painted but none of it is going to happen.
Yeh one club doing it is fine and Arsenal are doing it with the aim of getting into the CL. If we had the SL this season then Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool would probably all just be resting their players.
Or like what. You’re 5th out of the SL and can’t win the league. What is there to play for? Having to fight for European places makes the season so much more exciting.
That is good to hear. Only said it to because it seems to cater to the Americans with the NBA format. No racism intended.
Earlier today, RMC said that for the moment Al Khelaifi is not committing because he is friend with Ceferin. Marseille are the other french club and we don't really know why they haven't accepted yet.
Probably because in that season they will get more money than they will get from Uefa in 5
I look forward to tuning into Amazon Prime at 2am on Thursday morning to watch the United-Liverpool derby, played at some half empty megastadium on the west coast of America.
Congrats to all who betted on Villarreal and Rome to reach the EL-finals.
I will add:
Where IS THE JEOPARDY?
World football and especially European football works in providing excitement based on the basic concept of jeopardy and risk and reward
You win and qualify to face the best
You lose enough and you get relegated
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Un-named storm trooper who dies pretty early
Been happening in the stands for a while now, games gone
Agreed. If I have to see that "Football Created by the poor, stolen by the rich" tifo again I'm going to lose it.
They're in it for the prestige and the ability to sportswash their reputation. That provides the incentive to be involved in the biggest competition.
Exactly. Anyone who watches the NBA understands this. The regular season is utter dogshit, and nobody takes it seriously because 95% of games don't matter.
The entire 18-25 game group stage will be the same.
Absolute shambles all around
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How is football between two great teams dogshit?
Rumor is City and Chelsea were told its happening get with the program or be left behind. If you aren't in, you aren't in and they don't want to be left behind. Why else would City sign up to a comp with rules on wages to revenue.
agree.
Neville mentioned docking points 5 minutes after hearing this news in an emotional outburst. Nothing wrong with that per se, but now let’s get some perspective - no one is docking points. Football is not dead, and supporters will still watch the team.
the fact that people are invested to come on a forum and state they won’t watch their team ever again says to me that they 100% will once they have calmed down and the games start to get played.
entirely predictable outbursts. I expect I’ll get called a ‘top red’ now…
Teams out of title races wont fare well in a competition of the elite. Money isnt the be all and end all, if a club has the resources and is failing, they will be under incredible pressure to win.
Look at England with 6 super clubs, thats a mini super league on its own. We cant even say thats unfair since everytime a Utd fan complained about City dominance due to money we were told to simply suck it up and get better.
Because winning a league title is still a big deal. The majority of your games are still league games.
Football has become a huge money spinner but the most important people still turn up because they love the game. Managers, players, fans. Managers and players want to be successful, to be remembered as well as possible etc. They will still want to win the league and compete as best they can in Europe, surely?
Maybe I'm overly optimistic but I think there's at least a bit of a middle ground here.
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Imagine you are Ole, you work so hard, make good progress. All the stress and criticism of managing Man United. You lose 3 semi-finals.
One more Semi Final, you lose because of this.
How can you feel alright with this? It's a disgrace. All that hard work for nothing. It doesn't matter now, take the competition away and go play some glorified friendlies.
One more Semi Final, you lose because of this.
How can you feel alright with this? It's a disgrace. All that hard work for nothing. It doesn't matter now, take the competition away and go play some glorified friendlies.
Nah. It'll only take a few years before Inter Miami get a place though.
Also, does anyone think some of the weird stuff going on this season with coaches might be related to this?
Like Klopp might have been deflated by this and even if he tried, this might have affected him if he decided he'd leave Liverpool over this (he famously turned us down because we thought we were a joke of a football club).
Similarly, I wonder if the resignation of the Bayern manager is related to this?
This is an absolute planetary event in terms of the football world. In societal terms, it feels as if we had an alien invasion and life has changed forever.
Finally, for anyone saying TV rights would be more affordable now, did that happen with Netflix, Disney+ and AppleTV? Did BT entering the market make it more affordable after they had their customer base built up?
Like Klopp might have been deflated by this and even if he tried, this might have affected him if he decided he'd leave Liverpool over this (he famously turned us down because we thought we were a joke of a football club).
Similarly, I wonder if the resignation of the Bayern manager is related to this?
This is an absolute planetary event in terms of the football world. In societal terms, it feels as if we had an alien invasion and life has changed forever.
Finally, for anyone saying TV rights would be more affordable now, did that happen with Netflix, Disney+ and AppleTV? Did BT entering the market make it more affordable after they had their customer base built up?
OK so if half way through the season you're out of the title race domestically, and you're also at the bottom of this super league, what exactly will half of your season be for?
Mad
Can someone please explain. Will this be instead of the Champions League? Premier league will be like it was but 6 teams will be playing midweek games in a super league instead of the Champions league?
The only way this is dead in the water is that for once, just once, all players unite.
All founding clubs have to sign up to a spending framework apparently. That and Bein sports are one of the main sponsors of the CL.
Sounds unlikely? No link for some reason...